{"id":4833,"date":"2016-12-22T11:24:09","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T11:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=4833"},"modified":"2016-12-22T11:24:09","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T11:24:09","slug":"14-turkish-soldiers-dead-in-fighting-against-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2016\/12\/22\/14-turkish-soldiers-dead-in-fighting-against-is\/","title":{"rendered":"14 Turkish soldiers dead in fighting against IS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fourteen Turkish soldiers have been killed in fierce fighting against so-called Islamic State in Syria, the Turkish army said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday`s clashes happened in the town of al-Bab, which Turkey is helping rebels take from IS control.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A further 33 Turkish soldiers were reported wounded.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is the Turkish military`s biggest loss in a single day since launching its military operation in Syria in August.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The army said IS used multiple suicide bombs, with 138 IS fighters killed in the fighting. This toll could not be verified independently.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As another key Syrian battleground &#8211; Aleppo &#8211; appears close to coming fully under Syrian government control, the fight for al-Bab has intensified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fourteen Turkish soldiers have been killed in fierce fighting against so-called Islamic State in Syria, the Turkish army said. &nbsp; Wednesday`s clashes happened in the town of al-Bab, which Turkey is helping rebels take from IS control. &nbsp; A further 33 Turkish soldiers were reported wounded. &nbsp; It is the Turkish military`s biggest loss in a single day since launching its military operation in Syria in August. &nbsp; The army said IS used multiple suicide bombs, with 138 IS fighters killed in the fighting. This toll could not be verified<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4834,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4833"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4835,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4833\/revisions\/4835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}